Dorothy Quote #168

Quote from Dorothy in Adult Education

Dorothy: I know exactly how she feels. I used to be scared of my teachers, too.
Blanche: Get out of here.
Dorothy: No, it's true, it's true. Elementary school was a nightmare. I was afraid to talk in class.
Rose: Why?
Dorothy: Well, I had a slight speech impediment. Well, it's different for kids these days, you know. They have Barbara Walters to look up to. Yeah, but in those days, it really stood out, you know.

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 ‘Adult Education’ Quotes

Quote from Sophia

Rose: What are you doing?
Sophia: It's Tuesday night. I'm cleaning out my purse.
Rose: Did all that stuff come out of your purse?
Sophia: No, I was also cleaning out my ears. That's where the Feenamint and the rain bonnet came from.
Rose: Sophia, why are you in such a bad mood?
Sophia: Forgive me, Rose, but I haven't had sex in 15 years and it's starting to get on my nerves.

Quote from Rose

Rose: Nils Felander attempted to harass me repeatedly.
Blanche: What do you mean, he attempted to?
Rose: He worked at Lars Erikson's Drugstore and Tackle Shop. He was a soda jerk. Now that I think about it, he was the town jerk. Every Saturday afternoon, I'd go in and have a sundae. Well, Nils would arrange the ice cream scoops in an obscene way. I could never prove it, because by the time I would take it home to show my father... the evidence had-
Rose, Dorothy & Blanche: [in unison] melted.
Rose: To this day, every time I pass an ice cream parlor or a tackle shop, I blush.

Quote from Sophia

Rose: Here we are, Sophia. The perfect after-dinner treat. A nice dish of Jell-O.
Sophia: I hate Jell-O. If God wanted peaches suspended in midair, he would have filled them with helium.